Petar Bacovic

Petar Bacovic (1898-April 1945) was a Chetniks commander during World War II.

Biography
Petar Bacovic was born in 1898 in Kalinovik, Bosnia Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Bacovic, as a former Major in the Yugoslav Royal Army, became a commander of the Chetniks during World War II, and in July 1942 Draza Mihailovic gave him command of the Chetnisk in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he took part in massacres against Muslim Bosniaks and Catholic Croats, as well as those sympathetic to Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisans. He was captured by the Croatian Army at the Battle of Lijevce Field in April 1945 and died in the Jasenovac concentration camp.